What does a Sailfin Blenny eat?

kinetic · Dec 3, 2017

OK, more details: Got a tiny 3/4" Golden Sailfin Blenny from Diver's Den last week. He's in my QT, in fact he was so small I put him in a breeder box in the QT. I'm currently doing Prazipro on him and two other fish in my QT. No signs of any illness, he just perches and sometimes swims around against the walls of the breeder box. I tried feeding pellets, but I'm guessing this guy is more of a grazer. There's no algae in my QT tank.

I'm on day 3, and he hasn't eaten any pellets, and there's nothing to graze on.

I just bought nori and algae wafers, and put those in the breeder box with him. So far, no interest. Even if I had rock with algae, not sure if he'd graze right now.

Should I try feeding something else? Do they care about garlic?

kinetic · Dec 3, 2017

I'm also just leaning towards putting him in the display tank. I would normally QT this guy for 2 weeks with two doses of prazipro, and feeding with metroplex, but I'm worried he's just going to starve. He's also not showing any signs of illness, other than ignoring algae wafer/nori. Probably stressed out.

I'm not too worried about ich right now. I didn't QT my snails etc., so chances are I'd need to fallow my tank out at some point in the future anyway (I'll probably upgrade my tank at some point, which would be a good time to go fallow).

kinetic · Dec 3, 2017

Well... he's starting to chomp on the algae wafer, so I think I'm good to go for now!

saltyfilmfolks · Dec 3, 2017

http://m.liveaquaria.com/product/69/black-sailfin-blenny?pcatid=69&c=15+23+69
Herbivore.

kinetic · Dec 3, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
http://m.liveaquaria.com/product/69/black-sailfin-blenny?pcatid=69&c=15+23+69
Herbivore.

I've heard they eat pellets too... but maybe that's just a weird occurrence. Anyway, I wasn't really prepared on what to do with a herbivore in a QT tank until now, oops. At least the wafer is getting chomped on. Maybe he'll find the nori before I need to pull it all out.